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noun/ˈbɪt//ˈbɪ̝t//ˈbət/
  1. 1

    A small amount of something.

    • There were bits of paper all over the floor.
    • Does your leg still hurt? —Just a bit now.
  2. 2

    A piece of metal placed in a horse's mouth and connected to the reins to direct the animal.

    • A horse hates having a bit put in its mouth.
  3. 3

    A rotary cutting tool, fitted to a drill, brace, or router, used to bore or drill holes or to remove material from the profile of the workpiece.

    • router bit
    • chamfering bit
  4. 4

    Applied to a various small units of currency and coins.; A coin of a specified value.UKdated

    • a threepenny bit
  5. 5

    Applied to a various small units of currency and coins.; A unit of currency worth one eighth of a dollar, originally of a Spanish dollar but later also US or Canadian; also, a coin with this value, in particular the silver Spanish real.CanadaUShistorical

    • A quarter is two bits.
  6. 6

    Applied to a various small units of currency and coins.; A coin of a value similar but not equal to this, in particular the 'short bit', i.e. the ten-cent piece or dime.CanadaUSobsolete

    • The smallest coin we had in Canada in early days was a dime, worth ten cents. The Indians called this coin “a Bit”. Our next coin, double in buying power and in size, was a twenty-five cent piece and this the Indians called “Two Bits”.
  7. 7

    Applied to a various small units of currency and coins.; A unit of currency and coin of the British West Indies worth six black dogs, originally equal to one-eighth of a Spanish dollar but later increasingly debased to one tenth, one eleventh, one twelfth, etc.historical

    • I trusted to the Lord to be with me; and at one of our trips to St. Eustatia, a Dutch island, I bought a glass tumbler with my half bit, and when I came to Montserrat I sold it for a bit, or sixpence.
  8. 8

    Applied to a various small units of currency and coins.; A unit of currency of the Dutch West Indies in the early 20th century, worth one fifth of a cent.historical

  9. 9

    Applied to a various small units of currency and coins.; Synonym of microbitcoin.

  10. 10

    Specifically, a small amount of time.informal

    • I'll be there in a bit; I need to take care of something first.
    • He was here just a bit ago, but it looks like he's stepped out.
verb/ˈbɪt//ˈbɪ̝t//ˈbət/
  1. 1

    To put a bridle upon; to put the bit in the mouth of (a horse).transitive

verb/ˈbɪt//ˈbɪ̝t//ˈbət/
  1. 1

    simple past of biteform-ofpast

    • Your dog bit me!
  2. 2

    past participle of bite, bittenarchaicform-ofinformal

    • I've been bit by your dog!
adj/ˈbɪt//ˈbɪ̝t//ˈbət/
  1. 1

    Having been bitten.in-compoundsnot-comparable

    • Even though he's bit, of course the zombies would still chase him.
noun/ˈbɪt//ˈbɪ̝t//ˈbət/
  1. 1

    A binary digit, generally represented as a 1 or 0.

  2. 2

    The smallest unit of storage in a digital computer, consisting of a binary digit.

  3. 3

    Any datum that may take on one of exactly two values.

    • status bits on IRC
    • permission bits in a file system
  4. 4

    A unit of measure for information entropy.

    • The researchers found that the original texts spanned a variety of entropy values in different languages, reflecting differences in grammar and structure. But strangely, the difference in entropy between the original, ordered text and the r
  5. 5

    A microbitcoin, or a millionth of a bitcoin (0.000001 BTC).

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